“Israel is behind the coup in Egypt, we have evidence,” Erdogan told members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Tuesday, citing an unnamed “French intellectual.”

“Erdoğan stressed the Jewish identity of the French intellectual,” Today’s Zaman said. Erdogan cited his source as saying in 2011 that “the Muslim Brotherhood won’t be in power even if they are elected because ‘democracy is not the ballot box,'” the paper reported.